Advantages of passive detectors for the determination of the cosmic ray induced neutron environment

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 541-544

  Hajek, M ^a,b   Berger, T ^a,b   Schoner W ^a   Vana, N ^a,b  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b Austrian Society for Aerospace Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DEVICE; INSTRUMENT; NEUTRON; NEUTRON RADIATION; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROMETER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036393014     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a005932     Document Type: Article

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